I wondered as I got to know him if he didn’t want to correct it or did he only want to be different. I would maybe write, “He was six foot four, extremely thin, and had a walleye. They’ll say, “He was a tall and handsome man.” I would never write that. They don’t mind reusing the same word over and over and that’s the difference. Usually these writers are much richer than me, but I can’t be them and they can’t be me. The average novelists who makes a fortune, let’s say someone like Danielle Steel, are completely unaware of things like that. She shrieked.” You look at the verbs and you say, “Can I vary them?” Then you’re also aware of the patterns of speech with different characters, because you can really hear the patterns of speech. Well, you’re more aware of language if you’re a poet and when you edit yourself, you’re more fierce mostly because you don’t want to overuse the same verbs. I did it anyway.ĭo you find that the economy of language that happens in poetry has any correlation to the way that you think about writing fiction? In America, we’re supposed to choose a major in the great graduate school of life and people get very suspicious if we do more than one thing. I was told I couldn’t write essays, poetry, and fiction. Of course, there were already many women like this, but people don’t know about them because we live in an age of sexism, unredeemed. I always believed that I wanted to be like a female John Updike or a female Philip Roth or a female Saul Bellow. I’ve published 10 novels and 10 books of nonfiction. What can you tell me about your creative practice as it relates to working between these different genres? You’re a novelist, essayist, and poet with a new collection, The World Began with Yes, out this Spring. My experience has been the same with younger men-that they get very attached and I get bored. I turned the story upside down because I actually believe that the “older woman and the younger man” is a sexist story that came down through the ages. In my Sappho book, Sappho has an affair with a much younger man and he jumps off a cliff when she is bored with him. The classical idea is that Sappho committed suicide because she was in her 50s and she had an affair with a much younger man and he dumped her. However, she also brings people together who end in suicide because the Greeks believed that the gods were not always kind. The last thing he set was “Talking to Aphrodite,” a poem in which Aphrodite is talking about her tricky life and how she brings people together who fall in love. With classical music, I’ve been collaborating with Richard Danielpour, a distinguished classical composer. I’ve actually had these sorts of collaborations many times. I also appear on the record, but mostly, Vanessa and Peter set my poems to music, and they did beautiful work. Do with them what you want.” I gave them complete freedom. So, I gave them a book of my collected poems and I said, “Okay, kids. He’s extremely talented and he was married to one of my favorite people in the world, Vanessa. At the time that record was made, Vanessa Daou was married to my nephew Peter Daou, who is a musician and the second son of my elder sister. How does it feel to see your work exist in these different forms? Recently Vanessa Daou’s Zipless: Songs from the Works of Erica Jong was reissued for its 25th anniversary. In her books, Erica Jong tries to give women an authoritative voice by depicting strong heroines who are not afraid to express their sensuality and talk about the issues concerning the contemporary women.Your work has been translated and interpreted in a variety of different ways. Sex and female sexuality are the core themes in most of Erica Jong’s writings on which she has given talks, has been interviewed and praised by writers like John Updike and Henry Miller. The novel shocked the public for its explicit treatment of women's sexuality and significantly marked the development of the Second Wave Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960’s as well as the Sexual Revolution. The book, in which she coined a world-known term “zipless fuck” to describe an ideal sexual rendezvous, was translated into 40 languages making the young writer a heroine to millions of female readers worldwide. Erica Jong (born March 26, 1942, New York), a contemporary American fiction and poetry writer and teacher, is best known for her polemic novel Fear of Flying (1973).
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